Grey.

It's been all change with the weather today. Grey for the whole day with the sea mist blanking out the sand dunes and beyond. It was very warm in the morning and with the high humidity it felt as if thunderstorms might be brewing. However the sea mist crept ever closer and forced the temperature down. Eventually it got to a point where the misty wind was no longer drying the washing. Luckily ironing got rid of any damp and the cool was a relief from the heat of the last few days.

The main achievement of the day was Peter's fitting of a new toilet seat. The old one had split some time ago (Gaffa tape was used as a temporary fix) but it was incredibly hard to find a replacement. Not only was it a D-shaped seat which in itself wasn't too much of a problem but the 'modern' design of the actual toilet with concealed fittings accessed from the top only made finding a replacement a nightmare. Even when we found something that looked similar the crucial measurement between the fitting holes wasn't given or the type of fixing shown. Eventually Peter found one on-line which cost ….. £70! and then after much more searching he found a suitable one for half the price which is still double most of the standard ones in the shops. This one has a button you can push to lift the toilet seat off for cleaning but the fixing booklet had 15 steps of instructions. It's all done now and we don't have to worry about leaving somebody else with the problem. When we re-do the bathrooms in Borth we'll definitely make sure to put in standard toilets in rather than some fancy designer models.

Apart from housework and ironing I sorted through the containers of car 'stuff' in the garage with Peter and after keeping one or two items and binning the junk I put the rest on the free site, all to go together. Somebody is supposed to be collecting them tomorrow morning and if he's a no-show then there's another chap waiting.